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GOP Questions Twitter’s Former Censorship Team
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www.wyff4.com –
Ex-Twitter execs face GOP questioning on Hunter Biden story
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Former Twitter executives conceded Wednesday that they made a mistake by blocking a story about Hunter Biden, the president’s son, from the social media platform in the run-up to the 2020 election, but adamantly denied Republican assertions that they were pressured by Democrats and law enforcement to suppress the story.Video above: Ex-Twitter Exec Yoel Roth testifies before Congress“The decisions here aren’t straightforward, and hindsight is 20/20,” Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, testified to Congress. “It isn’t obvious what the right response is to a suspected, but not confirmed, cyberattack by another government on a presidential election.”He added, “Twitter erred in this case because we wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2016.
Biden Admin Looking to End Covid-19 Border Restrictions
From
www.rollcall.com –
US tells Supreme Court that health policy will change border case
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attempted to end the directive last year after determining that pandemic conditions had improved, but a Louisiana federal judge blocked that effort in a separate lawsuit brought by Republican-led states.
Still, the Justice Department has continued to defend its right to implement the policy in court. In the lawsuit in Washington, the Biden administration appealed the ruling to end the Title 42 policy but did not request to keep it in place while the appeal continued.
That prompted a group of Republican-led states to ask to join the case and defend the Title 42 policy in the government’s stead, nearly two years after the suit was filed. A federal appeals court rebuffed their request, but the Supreme Court paused the court-ordered end of the Title 42 policy as it considers the case.
DNC Hopes to Pay Off White Blue Collar Workers with “Buy America” Plan
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www.eenews.net –
White House releases details about ‘buy American’ plan
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President Joe Biden drew unusual bipartisan applause during his State of the Union speech when he called for rebuilding the nation’s crumbling infrastructure using entirely American-made materials, and the White House released more details Wednesday morning.
The administration wants new standards for projects funded with the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The standards would require that projects be built with material manufactured in the U.S.
“When we do these projects, and again I get criticized for this but I make no excuses for it, we’re gonna buy American,” Biden said Tuesday night, rattling off a list of materials. “Lumber. Glass. Drywall. Fiber optic cable.”
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